placenamesCourceys
Cúrsaigh
Ballinspittle provided a shared medical facility for a district extending across parish and barony boundaries.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Cúrsaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Courceys · English · main form
Place & story
A district service at Ballinspittle
Samuel Lewis’s description of Ballinspittle in 1837 records a newly erected dispensary serving Ringrone, Kilbritain and Ballinadee, together with the rest of Courceys barony. Its stated catchment therefore extended beyond the village and its own parish of Ringrone. The same account describes a road to Kinsale ferry as still being formed. Together, these details show Ballinspittle acquiring a district medical service while work continued on its connection with the harbour crossing. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Courceys. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballinspittle: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.